Bill Haskell, a Deputy US Marshal, starts out to find some children kidnapped by a band of Navajos, and winds up finding a wife. He has a dog that is very adept in fighting Indians and acquires a bitch with pups that joins the group. Eventually, he is forced to give up on the missing children and returns to being a regular federal marshal working in Arizona Territory. 7 chapters.
Alan missed being killed along with his family by minutes. At nine there was nothing he could do about it. He ran. When offered a place to stay on a farm out west he stuck around. He matured and came to love the life. The life he led was shaped by old Gert, the woman that gave him a place to stay.
Professor David Faeth was getting ready to head home. The day had been a rough one in the office, filled with student schedule changes and grade appeals. It was also his wedding anniversary, and he was anxious to get home. He was just about done stuffing paperwork and notebooks into his messenger bag and turning off the lights when he had a visitor who brought him news that was about to change his life forever—none of it good.
Caroline, recently divorced, estranged from her children and former friends, was lonely. Then her father died and she travelled north to arrange the funeral, sell the house and clear Pop's possessions. These include her father's dream car, a maroon Jaguar bought just before Caroline's mother died and her father's crippling stroke. The car hadn't moved in 30 years, but because it meant so much to Pop, she was loath to scrap it. She smiled as she sat in the driving seat...
In the town of Wilson's Gulch, the Sheriff's daughter held a secret not even her beloved father knew. Kitty Tucker had something no woman had a right to possess. She hid her difference well, but it became harder to hide when the pretty new schoolmarm moved into the boardin' house and took the room right next to Kitty's!
Eva Van der Heiden knows she will never find a man to love her. Her days are spent caring for her siblings and enjoying spinsterhood until her aunt matches her with a man under false pretenses. Luc de Jeu marries Eva thinking she will provide him with an heir when in fact, she thinks their union is a marriage of convenience. Can their marriage last when they both have different expectations?
His widowed mother and her sister ran a dry goods store in 1870. His sister helped out and he did odd jobs to make a little cash. A group of cowboys tried to rape his aunt, and they killed the sheriff when he tried to arrest them. So Bobby put on the sheriff's badge and went after the miscreants. They should have surrendered peaceably. But they didn't.
Prince Albert (his mother had a sense of humor) was born in Texas at the time of the War and the Comanche wars. His grandfather taught him to play poker so well that he was a rich man by the time he was an adult. He played poker on ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean and wiped out a gang of pirates in the Mediterranean Sea. That led to being hired to protect shipping from pirates off the coast of China. He was so successful that he wound up owning 10% of a shipping company. 20 chapters.